Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MOREWhoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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